The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-21
LIVE GHOSTS
New Workers Long thought 20 Be Dead
Mixing Juleps II the Far WeS&

FrDzs tAe Near Tark Hsruli
81 nsver expsEis1c=d until this winter
how snail the world really l.. said wal
known sporting mzn Tia o1hsr night 20 a
party q f-iez2s IN a uptown cub house-
I have been travel5ng n Central AH,=rica
and Mexico for the lsss i've months and
everywhere went stumbled ac-oss some
Oze ! knew-aEl kin5S-soz1e business men,
many Iuvaliis and tourists. sports,
gambler and crooks Then there were los
o men Of good family IN r1e Ezs- that
were up 20 al sorts o. 1hings 30 make 8 liv-
ing n the Wes1- One. a naval academy
graduate. IVES dealing Sud poker and rails
ing cold dacS Ii Arz511s. The nephew q
distinguished Philadelphia editor shaking up
cocktails for oowboyS II Texas. and e once
rlch Broadway merchant driving hack N
SCuthzru CalifoEnia-au uaen I knew well
when they lived here
i was surprised Il course. whsl ran
ecross than but what rook my breath away
and stoo.d my hair straight up was meeting
lot Of ghosts n California and In Gusre-
usela Ire country CGf there Is fun Of
than The fact i. saw az Least dozen
Uen that fu- the last fifteen % twenty years
have thought 20 Be dead had been told
Of three OF than
u
One Of these came and sat down 20 break
fss- az the same table with uSe 81 the Palace
Hotel San Francisco He uSed 70 De well
known New York club man. bus disappeared
years ago He did not recognize me until
ny teeth had done chaEterIng and then be
sad be had been n an asylum for years. and
having money left him he got out and came
% California 70 Be los1 70 Old associates Ira
Paine who was in San Francisco az the time
= L - IL
lizards with Jesse Smith al the As1oE HoEzSs.
met him in the street and nearly had & If
The nexf ghos- met was at Esquintla,
in Guatemala For wars he was the con
fdentisl man Of large business house in
Pearl street One day he disappeared His
hat was found On Harlem bridge Some
time afrerward body was found floating
IN the East river and the mystery was
cleared up. His employers said he was the
most honest man in the world, because he
left them without taking any of their
property along with him For years all
his friends used u say. poor Billy and
awful death 10 die ! went into the rail-
way station to get glass Of lemonade, and
Billy was behind the counter. playing with
an armadillo. He knew me al once, but the
meeting was terrible shock 10 nv nerves
He was as jolly and as witty as ever, but
avoided speaking OF anything connected
with the past He admitted he knew every
one thought he was dead
CALLED DEAD. AND KEPT U@THE "JoKE.n
Then, two months later walked into
the frame hut OF some miners in the noun
taills OF Mexico, and there, tilted hack in his
| chair, dressed 70 kill and reading the Three
| Guardsmen,n sat Col -. From 1876 70
1853 had played cribbage with MIN almost
| every night | was in the city. Then / went
70 Europe and when / came back every one
said he was dead. / had even read his obit-
uary in North Of England paper. He said
he was out there resting. He was a. level
| headed as ever and had plenty of money
| He asked after his children, who are now
/ grown up and married, living in Western
| New York. He said the story Of his death
| had somehow got out through mistake,
and, though angry at first, on thinking over
| it he made up his mind to keep up the joke.
| He often thought that he would come home
| and wake his relatives up, but had never got
started vet. He made me promise not TO
mention having seen him.
But while you laugh boys said the old
| sport, lit is no fun to 90 stumbling up
| against live dead people The only wonder
/ is that in this small world they can remain
in the grave 50 many years to their relatives
/ and friends. Not one of these men lad done
anything 20 be ashamed of to make them
| stay away from their homes